The Vendee Globe race, seen as one of the ultimate challenges for offshore skippers, involves sailing around the world from west to east via the three major capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and the Horn.
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Singapore, for instance, is a bit of the East that is rich enough to be in the first world but does not want to be part of the West.
So, I feel like we achieved a lot of that and I feel that in the long run, we took this challenging idea of starting 100 years prior and bringing the world to life, bringing the Wild West of outer space to life.
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It gives Disneyland a worthy companion park (finally) and also serves as an incentive for fans who are accustomed to the much larger Walt Disney World Theme Park to make the trek out West to check out the original.
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American economic growth during the 80s was the equivalent of adding the third largest economy in the world, West Germany, to the American economy.
The project, as part of a scheme by the British council to promote British arts around the world, aims to highlight the need for cultural and artistic ties between the West and the rest of the world.
"So however the world turns, we have deep links to the West, Japan, and old links to China and India that we'll deepen, " Yeo said.
The world governing body was forced to act when the West African country ignored several deadlines to reinstate the national football association executive committee which was fired in January 2001.
Jimmy Jellinek, the editorial director of Playboy, said Mr. Flanders could sometimes be a "terrible SOB, " but he's never seen him cross the line into unprofessional behavior, attributing the shift in company culture to the fact that the company went from being public to being backed by the "Wild West" world of private equity.
Instead, the pope often took a scholarly approach to public speaking, using discursive and, at times, provocative prose to tackle complex and divisive issues, ranging from the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, to the West's relations with the Muslim world.
Instead, the pope has often taken a scholarly approach to public speaking, using discursive and, at times, provocative prose to tackle complex and divisive issues, ranging from the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, to the West's relations with the Muslim world.
It is a part of Africa at the intersection of the Arab world -- of enormous strategic importance to the West -- and the West African heartland, a region only now becoming more stable after years of unspeakable human tragedy.
That is the sort of dilemma Sir William and his commissioners will have to resolve in a world where many politicians believe there is no answer to the West Lothian question.
While Google chose not to take advantage of the situation to show the unicorn Nexus to the world, real-life units have been discovered floating around Moscone West.
It was already one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, well known to both East and West, and a great way station of the Silk Road.
Security expert and former CIA officer Robert Baer told the BBC's World Today programme he believed the the latest threat to the West may be linked to the US-led attacks on Haqqani insurgents - allies of the Taliban in Waziristan.
Consider the lives saved as a result of thwarting just two of KSM's deadlier plots: One was an attack aimed at Heathrow Airport and the other was to have hit a West Coast version of the World Trade Center, likely the Trans America building in San Francisco.
This time around, England posted the highest total to date at this year's World Twenty20 tournament in the Caribbean - but were dismayed to see West Indies only asked to score 30 more runs from 22 balls following the resumption.
The bulk of the Spanish team wasn't even alive the last time that happened more than 30 years ago, at the 1982 World Cup, when it lost to West Germany (2-1) and then limped out of the tournament following a 0-0 draw with England, becoming the first host nation ever to bow out of soccer's biggest showcase in the first round.
The shift in military spending from west to east is also affecting the world's biggest western defence contractors.
In letters delivered to the finance ministers of the Group of Seven countries, the principal Latin American debtor nations, the IMF and the World Bank, the Center calls attention to the growing inequities in the industrialized West's approach to funding Mr. Gorbachev's perestroika and the financial requirements of the flegling democratic governments of Latin America.
Cruyff was named man of the tournament at the 1974 World Cup, but his team lost the final 2-1 to West Germany.
"Islamic bankers should do some missionary work in the Western world to promote the concept of Shariah banking, for which many in the West are more than ready now, " Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the World Islamic Economic Forum last month in Jakarta.
Just to the west of the World Trade Center site, Brookfield Office Properties Inc.
In the face of the heart wrenching death toll, the U.S., the West and the rest of the world are feeling renewed pressure to take action.
That's because the waters to the south and west are among the most unpolluted in the world--ideal for catching not only tuna but also oysters, mussels and lobsters.
The foreign minister said Syria would respond by strengthening its relationship with Russia, China and Latin America, "to prove to the West that the world is wide and is not made up only of America and Europe".
It was a privilege to meet Doudou (and even get a personal lesson in drumming), wonderful to see traditional music get a contemporary twist, and eye-opening to see West African artists reaching out to the rest of the world.
The standout event of the summer ahead is the World Twenty20 - in the West Indies - while England will also travel to Australia later in the year hoping to once again retain the Ashes.
China has also been pouring aid and investment into the Caribbean over the last decade as part of a long-term strategy to cultivate diplomatic support at the United Nations and to establish a strategic foothold in parts of the world long dominated by the West.
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